Impacts of recovered 690 abandoned electricity equipment containers emerging—FG
More stability of electricity nationwide is underway as the Federal Government have started putting parts of the recovered 690 out of 800 containers of electricity equipment abandoned at the port for 10 years by previous administrations to work.
Speaking at the commissioning of 2×100MVA – 132/33kv power transformers at Ejigbo Transmission Substation, Lagos, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, said “This is part of the recovered abandoned equipment you are seeing going into substations that Transmission Company of Nigeria’s engineers used to increase substation’s capacity.
“With this expansion, the additional feeders will serve communities like Ejigbo, Idimu, Oke-Afa, Egbe, Shasha.
“Also, Murtala Airport will also see improved power services,” he said.
Fashola said that transmission expansion work was going on in 90 locations across the country.
Earlier in his remarks, the Chief Executive Officer of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Mr Usman Mohammed, said the project was funded by the World Bank through TCN Project Management Unit.
It would be recalled that multibillion naira power infrastructure upgrade materials ordered by previous administration that were abandoned at Apapa ports were cleared with executive fiat by the President so as to use same to deepen electricity supply nationwide rather than allowing them to rot away.
According to the minister, “The present administration inherited 800 containers for power equipment left in the port and President Muhammadu Buhari gave us the approval to use it and we have recovered 690.
He assured that other recovered equipment are already put in works for the upgrade of several transmission stations nationwide.
Business Hilights recalls that the Ejigbo Transmission Substation was commissioned in 1970 with an installed capacity 60MVA, comprising two number of 30MVA 132/33kv transformers.
In August 2017, the capacity of the station was increased to 120MVA with the addition of a 60MVA transformer.
